What the actual fuck.

[dan131riley@federate.social]

@Pepijn @sundogplanets Curiously enough, a million orbital data centers would in fact get us to approximately Kardashev level 1.00000000000001.

[thestrangelet@beige.party]

@sundogplanets JFC, everyday its news of yet another billionaire's hard-on to destroy the only inhabitable planet we know of.

[ppulfer@mastodon.ie]

@utf_7 @troed @sundogplanets, I agree, that would be a great option as well and is supposedly our current policy. Reality is different though: Datacenters and municipals are signing NDA's, so that the public never really know what the impact on current population. At least in space they would have no other option.

[tallsimon@mstdn.ca]

@sundogplanets Perhaps it's time to put that information into the CRASH clock. Consider sending the FCC a summary.

If the critical delay for orbital corrections drops enough, perhaps even below even that associated with standard operations, then there's a really good argument to deny the application.

[davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets

So, when they all collide and fuck up all access to earth orbit for decades, where on the Kardashev scale will we be?

Asking for a planet.

[too_little_caffeine@dotnet.social]

@sundogplanets You gotta build Skynet somehow

[frantasaur@mastodon.ie]

@sundogplanets Ugh! Musk and the other tech bros are the next “great filter” we need to survive as a species.

[utf_7@mastodon.social]

@ppulfer @troed @sundogplanets do I talk to an AI?!

[ppulfer@mastodon.ie]

@utf_7 @troed @sundogplanets, not yet but soon I guess

[chancerubbage@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets @Barbramon1

Typical SpaceX Starlink communications satellites are roughly the size of a table or small car, weighing between 570 lbs (260 kg) for earlier models and up to 1,630+ lbs (740+ kg) for newer "V2 Mini" versions. They measure approximately 2.8 to 3.2 meters long, 1.4 to 1.6 meters wide, and are thin, designed for flat-packing in Falcon 9 rockets.

[faithinbones@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets this will be a catastrophic disaster

[cogean3125@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets
Takeaways: "Orbital data centers" for "accelerating demand for AI" (snicker). "This filing seems quite rushed"..."the details were left vague"

Bottom line: it's an investor scam. The people who wasted billions on AI R&D are looking for the "greater fool" to unload the investments onto, and need a fantasy project to convince people they can still get in on the ground floor of something. Once the IPO is through collecting gullible people's cash, their mission is accomplished.

[troed@swecyb.com]

@ppulfer

The point is that it's _really difficult_ to remove heat in space. Those datacenters will need to run at _much_ slower speeds than datacenters on Earth.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/1o1d0xd/why_cant_we_put_data_centers_in_orbit_where_they/

@utf_7 @sundogplanets

[tdelmas@mamot.fr]

@sundogplanets did they solved the cooling problem?

[oliver_schafeld@mastodon.online]

Does anyone have estimates how much #Starlink stock might be earmarked for #Trump loyalists?

#corruption #maga

[weezmgk@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets KESSLER NOW

[zgryphon@gweep.cat]

@sundogplanets ... what the fuck does that even mean? I know I could search for it, but I'm not sure I want that in my search history.

[sahak@xn--69aa8bzb.xn--y9a3aq]

@sundogplanets Starlink is going to launch a satellite cell phone service, also most airlines are switching to Starlink internet service, so I think it is natural that they will need a lot more satellites. Starship is going to be able to deliver them into orbit.

[gbargoud@masto.nyc]

@sundogplanets

It's not April fools but it is the day after he appeared in the Epstein files in the most embarrassing way possible

[samloonie@mstdn.ca]

@sundogplanets I thought the Dyson sphere was supposed to go around the Sun, not around the Earth ...